Need some inspiration before creating your own ViewChange film? Although not entries in the contest, take a look at these stories of progress in meeting the Millennium Development Goals. They’ll be sure to spur your creative juices.
| 8: Person to Person | |||
 | With participation from Muhammad Yunus and Bono, this film shows how a concept like micro-financing is really very personal. Directed by Wim Wenders. | ||
 | Follow the story of Isahn Khan, who won $54 million in the lottery while working as a cabdriver in Washington DC, then went back to his native Pakistan to become mayor of his home town. | ||
 | Nolusindiso "Titie" Plaatjie talks about the role of soccer in her life and how she uses the game to educate South African youth about HIV/AIDS prevention. | ||
 | Directed by Gael García Bernal as part of “8,” a series of eight films about the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, this film is set in Iceland and takes a personal perspective about the impact of primary education. | ||
 | Directed by Jan Kounen as part of “8,” a series of eight films about the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, this film deals with maternal health. | ||
 | Directed by Jane Campion as part of “8,” a series of eight films about the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, this powerful film shows the impact of drought on a family. | ||
 | This film is part of a longer program profiling a 24-year-old woman from a village in Nepal, who is taken to India and sold into a brothel. After escaping, she confronts the traffickers who took her across the border. | ||
 | Directed by Gus Van Sant as part of “8,” a series of eight films about the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. Van Sant uses skateboarding as a backdrop for his examination of the MDGs and why the goals are necessary in so many countries. | ||
 | The '8 GOALS FOR AFRICA' song is part of an awareness and advocacy campaign developed by the United Nations System in South Africa on the 8 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). | ||
| explore: Rescue Foundation | |||
 | This film documents human sex trafficking in India and the Rescue Foundation, which provides a refuge for girls who escape and also works to discover and free imprisoned girls. | ||
| explore: Rural Women | |||
 | In rural China, Wu Qing at the Development Center for Rural Women in believes that empowering women with the idea of equality, giving them out-of-home work skills, and instilling a sense of social responsibility will increase their feeling of self-worth and improve quality of life. | ||
